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Homilies on Exodus, Homilia X · §3

Soul for soul when form is complete

If the child is formed, life is given for life. Fuller teaching demands fuller care. Scandalizing little ones earns a millstone.

Latin

Si formatus fuerit, dabit animam pro anima. Perfectior doctrina maiorem exigit custodiam. Scandalum paruulorum — mola.

About this text

Origen’s Homilia X on Exodus (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–4.

English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI (GCS 29, 1920), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia X. Heine FOTC 71 was not used as wording. This page is Homilia X §§1–4 (closeout).

Witnesses

  • Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VI = GCS 29 (1920) (Latin · Homilia X §§1–4)

English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.